Now the budget sequester is chipping away the support of this and other agencies.
While chipping away at the deficit is important, the drop is a mere 6%.
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Meanwhile, science keeps chipping away at the wall that separates us from the other animals.
On sentencing, Recorder Stephen Lowne said "it was important society keeps chipping away at this evil".
"You start with a block and start chipping away at the shape, " said Sharps.
And my expectation is, is that we will just keep on chipping away at this.
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If you start chipping away at somebody's right, what are they going to take next?
The banking industry spent 60 years chipping away at Glass-Steagall and finally got it repealed in 1999.
Ever since catapulting into government seven years ago, AK has been chipping away at the generals' power.
This starts with chipping away at the federal control that prevents true competition between private health plans.
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Nicolas Sarkozy is chipping away at taxes and regulations, and wants Paris to expand through private-sector development.
The working-class folk led a rowdy lifestyle on the waterfront, chipping away at the Old World charm in the hills.
The agency's focus appears to be on the idea of chipping away at a target with multiple hits.
Unhelpfully for Mr Brown, Alistair Darling, his independent-minded chancellor, stresses the urgency of chipping away at public debt.
But Wigan kept chipping away, with Zaki's header from Koumas' cross just shaving the wrong side of the post.
Mark Wagh hit 70, but Charl Willoughby took three wickets and Alfonso Thomas two as Somerset kept chipping away.
The trekking industry in Nepal may still be a male-dominated business, but three sisters are slowly chipping away at its gender gap.
For the week, the major indexes posted comfortable gains, chipping away at the losses stemming from a post-election plunge.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is one such western institution which the Chinese government has chosen to start chipping away at.
England kept on chipping away at Bangladesh with Graeme Swann adding three more wickets to his impressive tally this tour.
They are chipping away at the rules and procedures for civil servants, which fill a book over 1, 200 pages long.
But even in technology markets, sometimes steadily chipping away at the foundation succeeds better than trying to blow it up.
Beyond chipping away at the margins, the US has no ability whatsoever to change the conference's agenda or expected outcome.
With each of these moves, Facebook is chipping away at what made Instagram so cool and popular to begin with.
Novell officials acknowledge that corporate minds tend to be set against them, but say they are chipping away at this resistance.
They accept the horribly misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and they resign themselves to chipping away at its edges.
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But the Chinese firms were chipping away in the smaller towns and villages, building direct-sales armies to work with small shops.
Kimmitt said the coalition is chipping away at al-Sadr's militia and won't stop until the cleric is arrested in al-Khoei's killing.
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When I get overwhelmed with the overall vision, I focus on chipping away one goal, one small accomplishment at a time.
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One trend, he says, is that there are many (too many, is the implication) ad tech companies chipping away at the dollars going to publishers.
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